Tigers help shape young swings

STOCKTON - Members of the Pacific baseball team have withstood the heat wave this week while serving as mentors for area kids at Klein Family Field.

Jagdip Dhillon

STOCKTON - Members of the Pacific baseball team have withstood the heat wave this week while serving as mentors for area kids at Klein Family Field.

Allen Riley, Marcus Pointer, Garrett Borba and Robbie Richardson have been working four hours each day with more than 20 kids between the ages of 7-12 since Monday. The camp concludes today. Riley, who will be senior this fall, said this is his first camp experience as a tutor and he's thoroughly enjoying it.

"It's been so cool," Riley said. "The kids are funny and they come from all different kinds of places. It's great that they look up to us. Some of them already have the fundamentals down."

The Pacific players have been joined by pitching coach Mike McCormick and undergraduate assistant Ramon Glasgow in running the players through drills before playing a game each afternoon. Riley said he's enjoyed being a coach, manager and bat boy this week.

Riley also plans to be a part of Pacific's remaining two camps this summer - a youth camp July 11-14 and a high school players camp July 17-21.

Information: pacificbaseballcamps.com

Former Pacific women's volleyball coach John Dunning will be inducted into the American Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in December.

Dunning, who led Pacific to NCAA championships in 1985 and 1986, has been the head coach at Stanford since 2001. He led the Cardinal to national titles in 2001 and 2004. He has led each of his 26 teams to the NCAA Tournament, while compiling a 726-151 record (.827 winning percentage).

Dunning will be inducted along with legendary women's player Liz Masakayan and men's coach Gerald Matacotta on Dec. 15 in San Antonio.

Miranda Forry is the new director of basketball operations for women's basketball. Forry, who played at UC Irvine from 2004-08, replaces Jenn Wassom, who left the program for an assistant coaching position at Portland State under former Pacific coach Sherri Murrell.

Forry spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach for the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She was a team captain for the Anteaters, appearing in more than 100 games and averaging 7.4 points and 4.2 rebounds in her final two seasons.